Western Heights Preservation Society
For our final volunteer workday of 2025 on 16th November, we went to the Drop Battery site to give it a tidy up and to enhance accessibility for everyone using it over the winter. This also serves to discourage anti-social behaviour and littering. A large amount of vegetation was cleared and burned, and all the […]
We were proud to host Engineering students from East Kent College at the Grand Shaft on 12th November who carried out exceptional work of cleaning and maintenance of the Grand Shaft site. Tasks completed on the day included: – Rubbing down and preparing railings ready for future painting – Gathering and removing leaf matter – […]
A grey and slightly rainy 19th October saw our final workday inside the Drop Redoubt for this year, passing custody to the hibernating bats that live inside the fort over the winter and look after it in our absence. We would like to thank everyone who has joined our tours or visited us for any […]
We are pleased to be able to announce that the Heritage Open Days booking link for Dover’s North Entrance is now live at Eventbrite, click here to access and book your place. Simply select the day you require and select your preferred tour time from the list of available times. Tours run every half hour from 1000 […]
All tours are now fully booked – we look forward to seeing you all on your tour! The Western Heights Preservation Society are pleased to be able to announce that we are opening the Napoleonic North Entrance road tunnels and gun rooms once again in 2022! This is a ‘once a year’ opportunity to […]
North Entrance Tours Travel Warning Saturday 21st September 2019 Well done to all those that have booked tours for North Entrance but if you are attending on Saturday 21st September please read the following message. Extinction Rebellion are holding a mass demonstration on Saturday 21st from 1000 to 1500 with the aim of shutting down […]
We are pleased to be able to announce that the Heritage Open Days booking link for Dover’s North Entrance is now live at Eventbrite, click here to access and book your place. Simply select the day you require and select your preferred tour time from the list of available times. Tours run every half hour from 1000 […]
January workday arrived and time to blow out all those Xmas cobwebs! Fortunately the day was sunny albeit a bit cold and ‘two skips Sunday’ as it was lovingly referred to by our volunters was born. The task was to clear the accumulated rubble from previous workays collected from various dumping sites around the ditch […]
The Western Heights Preservation Society are pleased to be able to invite you to their AGM to be held on Friday 1st February 2019 at St Mary’s Parish Centre, Church Street, Dover, CT16 1BY @ 7pm. Free parking is available at the adjacent Stembrook Car Park (CT16 1BW) Join us to hear about the work […]
‘Dover’s Forgotten Commando Raid’, a book researched and written by WHPS volunteer and committee member Phil Eyden and available exclusively from the Western Heights Preservation Society, describes the planning, execution and aftermath of a hitherto undescribed Commando raid to France. The 96 page book with over 30 photographs, many published for the first time, reconstructs […]